The I CARE Foundation is a leading global non-profit organization dedicated to preventing international parental child abduction. The I CARE Foundation’s groundbreaking International Travel Child Consent Form has been hailed as a landmark global child abduction prevention tool by the international legal community including Hague Permanent Bureau Senior Officers. Since our inception in 2009, the reported U.S. outbound child abduction rate has decline by 38%.

Monday, March 30, 2015

Arabic International Travel Form For Minors

The I CARE Foundation’s International Travel Child Consent Form created to prevent international parental child abduction associated with a child being wrongfully detained by one parent in a foreign country is now available in Arabic. The travel form addresses key legal issues revolving around the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention and provides courts worldwide charged with overseeing potential international parental child abduction cases associated with countries that speak Arabic with a unique, globally well-established court implemented abduction prevention tool that is widely supported by the international legal, diplomatic, and judicial communities familiar with international parental child abduction.

An extensive I CARE Foundation study conducted during the summer of 2014 surveyed hundreds of attorneys and judges located around the world deeply familiar with international parental child abduction. The study’s findings showed that over 70% of all international parental kidnappings amongst the ninety-four 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention member signatory nations occur when one parent wrongfully detains a child abroad without the child’s other parent’s consent or a court order, violating the left-behind parent’s right of custody and the child’s right to the targeted parent. The survey also concluded the overwhelming majority of 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention cases associated with wrongful retention, the abducting parent often uses abduction defenses available to them under Article 12 and Article 13 of the Hague Convention in hope to have the court located in the country the child has been wrongfully detained in sanction their act of not returning the child to their country of original jurisdiction.

Extensive high remarks for the I CARE Foundation’s International Travel Child Consent Form as a groundbreaking, comprehensive, and significant global international parental child abduction prevention tool have been voiced by the leadership within legal communities familiar with international parental child abduction during legal forums around the world including compelling commentary from senior officers of the Hague Permanent Bureau during but not limited to international legal symposiums on child abduction held during the LEPCA Conference in the Hague, the IAML Conference in New York, and the Sapporo Bar Association’s Hague Symposium in Sapporo. In addition a large and growing number of attorney Bar Associations in the United States and abroad have published positive and meaningful feedback concerning the I CARE Foundation’s travel consent form with clear intent to educate their legal constituents about the landmark child abduction prevention tool. Perhaps most meaningful is the reality that many judges around the world have praised the I CARE Foundation’s travel consent form, have utilized the document in their courtrooms, and continue to implement the form in courtrooms around the world during child custody and child travel legal proceedings.

Demonstrated by the large number of international child travel cases that have successfully occurred utilizing the I CARE Foundation’s travel form, we continue to witness the important role a Hague-oriented travel consent form has in the global theater of international child abduction prevention. We remain highly optimistic that the global international parental child abduction rate will substantially decline due to use of Hague-oriented travel consent forms. Our substantial research indicates that over 70% of all international child kidnappings occur when a child is wrongfully detained abroad – the exact parental kidnapping scenario our travel form has successfully protected against.

The creation and use of our travel consent form is rather simple: children have a right to know magic and to live in a world free of concern from parental child abduction. And targeted parents of abduction have a right to have society protect their children from kidnapping. We believe in these rights. Our work and dedication continues.

International Travel Child Consent Form Now Translated Into Languages From Around The World

Read Sworn Testimonias About The I CARE Foundation and Peter Thomas Senese

The I CARE Foundation led by Founding Director Peter Thomas Senese have helped reunite many internationally kidnapped children while protecting numerous targeted children from abduction. Please take the time to read numerous sworn testimonials about Peter and the I CARE Foundation's work assisting families in crisis.

NEW ABDUCTION PREVENTION TOOL: The International Travel Child Consent Form

One of the most powerful tools to prevent international chiid abduction for children traveling to a foreign country. DON'T LET YOUR CHILD LEAVE WITH THE OTHER PARENT WITHOUT HAVING USING THIS AGREEMENT!

U.S. International Child Abduction Rate Drops By 15%

Since the I CARE Foundation commenced operations, the reported cases of international parental child abduction has dropped by over 15% for the second year in a row (for fiscal years 2011 and 2012) after nearly 30 years of rocketing growth. Though progress is being made in the United States, abduction remains a worldwide pandemic. Click on the Department Of State logo to read how this remarkable occurance has happened.

The I CARE Foundation

The I CARE Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing international child abduction and trafficking. The foundation has been very effective in working to have new state and federal laws and policies implemented, or existing policies modified, geared toward protecting children of abduction. Since commencement of the I CARE Foundation's operations, the reported number of international parental child abductions originating from the United States has declined by over 15% per year during fiscal year 2011 followed by a decline of over 16% during 2012: a remarkable accomplishment after nearly 30 years of U.S. outbound child abduction growth. Though focused on research and new policy implementation, the I CARE Foundation has played key roles in reuniting dozens of internationally abducted children while preventing many more cross-border abductions.

Peter Thomas Senese Speaks At United Nations

Peter Thomas Senese and the I CARE Foundation recently hosted a conference on international parental child abduction held at the United Nations at the request of the United States Department of State.

Chasing Parents: Educational Documentary Film

In an effort to help families in crisis due to an international parental child abduction plan or actual kidnapping, I have created a detailed educational documentary film series titled Chasing Parents: Racing Into The Storms Of International Parental Child Abduction. Many targeted parents and advocates from around the world have found this series to be extremely useful. Click here to see the entire film series. Below is Chasing Parents: An Overview of International Parental Child Abduction (Part I).

Chasing Parents: IPCA Documentary Film

In an effort to help families in crisis due to an international parental child abduction plan or actual kidnapping, I have created a detailed educational documentary film series titled Chasing Parents: Racing Into The Storms Of International Parental Child Abduction. Many targeted parents and advocates from around the world have found this series to be extremely useful. Click here to see the entire film series. Below is Chasing Parents: An Overview of International Parental Child Abduction (Part I).

Chasing Parents: Racing Into The Storms Of International Parental Child Abduction

A Special Message

Please take the time to read a special message concerning international parental child abduciton from I CARE Founding Director Peter Thomas Senese (please click on the image above).

Chasing The Cyclone

Peter Thomas Senese's novel on international child abduction has been hailed as a book of miracles. Met by rave reivews, Chasing The Cyclone is much more than a face-paced international legal thriller about a child's abduction, but has been hailed by book reviewers and the media as a call-to-arms against international child abduction.